Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop, sentence 11

Two people pushing a heavy wardrobe add their pushes together, and once it is sliding it is a bit easier to keep it going, because the floor grips it a bit less once it moves.

Who acts: Two people, wardrobe, floor, people · What happens: push, add, slide, be, keep, go · To what, where: heavy wardrobe, pushes, wardrobe

This is a sentence of the lesson «Pushes and pulls: what makes things move and stop» of the physics course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Two people, wardrobe, floor, people), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 people	nummod
2	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 add	nsubj
3	pushing	push	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 people	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 wardrobe	det
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wardrobe	amod
6	wardrobe	wardrobe	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pushing	obj
7	add	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 pushes	nmod:poss
9	pushes	push	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 add	obj
10	together	together	ADV	_	7 add	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 sliding	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 sliding	cc
13	once	once	SCONJ	_	16 sliding	mark
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 sliding	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sliding	aux
16	sliding	slide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 add	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 easier	nsubj
18	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 easier	cop
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 bit	det
20	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 easier	obl:unmarked
21	easier	easy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	16 sliding	parataxis
22	to	to	PART	_	23 keep	mark
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sliding	advcl
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 keep	obj
25	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 keep	xcomp
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 grips	punct
27	because	because	SCONJ	_	30 grips	mark
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 floor	det
29	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 grips	nsubj
30	grips	grip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 add	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 grips	obj
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bit	det
33	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 less	obl:unmarked
34	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 grips	advmod
35	once	once	SCONJ	_	37 moves	mark
36	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 moves	nsubj
37	moves	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 grips	advcl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 add	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	push	gerund	Two people not said here	a heavy wardrobe		vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wardrobe=Theme
2	add speech: assert	present	Two people	people's pushes	together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent push=Patient
3	slide	present · progressive	wardrobe			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	present	wardrobe		a bit obl:unmarked; easy property	tree rules
5	keep	to-infinitive	wardrobe not said here	wardrobe		tree rules
6	go	gerund	wardrobe not said here			vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	grip	present	the floor	wardrobe	less property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
8	move	present	floor			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
9	push		people			nom push «act intransitive»: poss=agent

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:physics:004-pushes-and-pulls-move-and-stop.lesson:11.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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